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Carnivore Report
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Young)
Wed Nov 22 15:19:39 2000
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Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 15:00:35 -0500
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From: John Young <jya@pipeline.com>
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We offer an HTML version of the Carnivore technical
review report released yesterday by the Department
of Justice (without appendices):
http://cryptome.org/carnivore.rev.htm (164KB text, 8 images)
One notable conclusion about Carnivore's shortcomings
and why its code should not be released to the public:
Carnivore can be countered with simple, public-domain
encryption.
But it can snarf everything done by a targeted Web user,
e-mail, FTP, HTTP, and you name it. And, as Nicky Hager
writes today, this capability is to become the global standard
if the FBI gets its way:
http://www.heise.de/tp/english/special/enfo/4306/1.html
